Winner Week 67

Thank you everyone who entered our colour palette challenge, we asked you to create something using 'Ada's slave' by Eileen (Eiglas):




Our sponsor for this week is Sew Many Cards and Digital Stamps, who sell a great range of digi stamps in their store.




Our winner this week, as picked by random.org is...........

Number 13 - Christine, and this is the gorgeous card she made:


Well done Christine, to claim your prize please email us, hope you enjoy it!

C.R.A.F.T 67 - Colour Challenge

Before I get into our theme for this week, I'd like to just give a warm welcome to our new Design Team Members. You've already been introduced so I would just ask that you give them a very warm welcome - they're a canny bunch!

This week, we have a lovely colour challenge (we know how much you like those...!)

As my parting gift to C.R.A.F.T, I have left a few of my colour swatches for their use for you in future challenges and this one is called 'Ada's Slave'.

 'Ada's Slave' Pallette

 I make up these 'swatches' with colours I blend myself.  

I'm also leaving my toning papers for your use, if you wish so to do.  Enjoy!

Ada's Paisley

Ada's Hearts

Ada's Jacquard

Ada's Swirls

Ada's 'Tartan'

To 'snag' any of these images, just click on them to enlarge then right-click and 'save image as' and save it to your pc. (you'll need to remember where you put them!)

(The only thing I would ask is that, as a courtesy, you mention 'Eiglas 'Ada's Slave' ' if and when you publish them anywhere.)

I love this pallette - it's so gentle and perfect for baby papers or romantic projects. I hope you enjoy it too!

As an added incentive, I'm giving away a further lickle prize to the winner of the challenge ONLY IF THEY USE MY PAPERS!

The winner gets to choose any single digi stamp from my collection at 'Stitchy Bear Stamps'.

My stamps are a high-end resolution of 300dpi min and the set includes a png and a tif file as well as the jpg we all know and love.

http://shop.sewmanycards.com/

Our lovely sponsor this week is 'Sew Many Cards And Digital Stamps' who are kindly offering a lovely prize for the lucky winning entry.

The team, as always, have come up with some lovely, inspiring projects, and I trust you'll be coming up with some lovely projects to inspire US!

Our new DT members have really arrived in a blaze of glory with some wonderful projects!

Annette 

Carla

Carol

Eiglas (me!)

Jo

Kathie

Kevin

Rose

Sharon

Tigerlover (Jnr Team Member)

Blogger has been very naughty again and lost this entire finished update, although it was savedsuccessfully, according to blogger. Please come back later to see the rest of the team's projects and bear with me as I try to remember what I originally wrote although it is now nearly three o'clock in the morning.

We look forward to seeing your projects next week and though this is my last week on the team, I will be back!  Thank you to Jo and the team for letting me have so much fun on C.R.A.F.T and I know you'll manage jjust fine without me (...as long as you have another insomniac on the team that is...!).

Take care and have fun!

Eiglas and the C.R.A.F.T  Team!

x

Winner Week 66

Thank you to everyone who entered our 'Man's Best Friend' challenge! Thanks also to our sponsor Lauretta's Digital Stamps who are kindly giving the prize this week.



Our winner this week, as picked by random.org is...............

Number 7 - Maria Simms, who made this lovely card:


Well done Maria, to claim your prize please email us, hope you enjoy it!

And here is Annette!

Just one more to introduce, Annette. Here is what she had to say:

Hello Fellow Crafters! My name is Annette. I’m a proud mother of 2 lovely young ladies, a handsome & intelligent son, and “Lola” to 2 adorable, charming granddaughters.


I love art in all forms – painting, drawing, crafting, etcetera… I started scrapbooking about 8 years ago, card making about 2 years ago. I very quickly got hooked! I began participating in challenges, and launched my blog just this past January.

As for my design style, I love to build up my own backgrounds & create my own designer paper. I often create my own embellishments too, especially flowers, which is my favourite! My creative passion for the moment is anything vintage shabby chic. Aside from my love of card making, I also love to create 3-D and altered projects.

I am so thrilled to join the talented C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Design Team. I look forward to creating, learning & sharing techniques, and ideas. But moreover, having fun while making new friends!

“Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself.” - Anawanitia

Keep creating!


Annette

Welcome to the team, Annette, we look forward to working with you!

Introducing Kevin.

Time to introduce the male member of our team. We're glad to have him on board. Here is what he has to say about himself.

Hi, I'm Kevin from Essex.
I started card making about three and half years ago after having to pack up work die to ill Health.
It has now become my passion,
I have a lovely wife Heather who is very supportive and encourages me and we have 4 beautiful cats.
I was recently talent spotted in the Docraft creativity Mag.
I've only recently started blogging but am enjoying it.
I'm very pleased to be part of the C.R.AF.T team and im looking forward to getting to know everyone


Happy crafting, Kevin xx
 
Welcome on board Kevin, we look forward to working with you!

And here is Sharon!

It's time to introduce Sharon. This is what she has to say.

I'm a Mum to two gorgeous little boys and work part-time as a scientist, but in the evenings crafting takes over!! I'm addicted stamps, Promarkers and anything that glitters. I mostly make cards, but also enjoy scrapbooking about my family. This is my first DT spot, I'm so excited to be part of C.R.A.F.T.


Welcome to our team Sharon, we look forward to working with you!

Another new member to introduce, here is Jacky!

Next it's time to introduce Jacky. She will be joining us from challenge 68.


This is what she has to say about herself.

Hi! I'm Jacky, I live on the Hampshire / Surrey border with my husband and 11 year old son. Also at home are; Rupert my one eared lop rabbit and a mad guinea pig called Yogi! I have been crafting in one form or another ever since I was a child with varying degrees of success - please don't mention knitting to me! I enjoyed doing cross stitch for many years but found it a little slow. Then I started to dabble in scrapbooking & moved on to making ATC's. However, since I discovered card making challenges last year, they have become my main addiction, along with stash shopping!! My blogging name is Paddington Fan so I think you can guess that I am a big kid and love bears and vintage kids TV programmes!!



It does seem a bit funny writing about myself


Looking forward to joining you all


Love Jacky


P.S. I have been going around grinning like a Cheshire Cat ever since I read my email !!!!
 
Hi there Jacky, welcome to the team, we look forward to working with you!

Further introductions, here is Kathie!

So, it's time to announce the next new team member. We are just introducing them in no particular order, just when there introductions come through to us.


Here is what Kathie has to say:

Greetings All!


How fabulous to have been chosen to be part of the Design Team.


Here’s a little bit about me. I live in Ontario Canada. So nice to see Canucks on the team! I have always been an artsy type person and just recently decided to jump into cardmaking, blogging and the world of copic markers.


I have a supportive workaholic husband and 2 amazingly good kids. It’s been a wonderful journey so far and exciting to be able to speak with people all over the world to share ideas and inspirations.


Hugs, Kathie
 
Welcome Kathie, looking forward to working with you as well.

Here is Carla!

Next in line to be introduced is Carla:

Hello! I am so thrilled to be given this fabulous opportunity to create along side each of you! I look forward to it!



I am horrible at introductions but...


I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I have two adorable pugs and love to make cards. scrapbook pages, tags, etc. I love challenge blogs and meeting new crafty friends and getting new ideas and inspiration!

Welcome Carla, we look forward to working with you!

Introducing Carol

Drum roll please.....

Introducing our first new DT member, Carol, and here is what she has to say about herself:

I am a fortysomething nurse, mum of three, who still enjoys colouring in, especially with promarkers.I have a very understanding hubby who supports my craft mess, I love my hobby and love to shop for the crafty things in my life. I have a wonderful family and an adorable dog called Neo.

Welcome Carol, we look forward to working with you.

The new DT members have been chosen.

We have now chosen our new team members and we are very happy to have them on board. We received many great applications, but only had room for a limited amount of people on our team.

And here are the new members of our team:

Annette
Carla
Carol
Jacky
Kathie
Kevin
Sharon


We will start to introduce our new team members over the coming few days. Exciting times are ahead of us and we are looking forward to seeing what the new team members will cook up for us.

Love,

Jo and the CRAFT team.

Our DT call is now closed!

Just to let you know that our DT is now closed and we will be mulling over the lovely entries we have received. We will try to come to a decision over the next few days.

Love,

Jo and the CRAFT team.

C.R.A.F.T 66 - Man's Best Friend

My favourite subject!

Dogs are my very favourite animal - well ahead of human beings and only just ahead of horses.

I love them all, so I'm chuffed we at C.R.A.F.T have a week dedicated to our lovely, cuddly, faithful, loving beautiful, noble canine companions.

So we want to see your very best efforts this week - our canine friends deserve that, at the very least.

With this in mind, our sponsor Lauretta's Digital Stamps have, very appropriately, provided us with two lovely lickle dogs with which we can, if we choose, make our demo cards and that's what we've done (...I've chosen the Scottie-dog..!)!

Our somewhat denuded (...but supertalented ...) team have brought you these projects to inspire you and I think they're fab, don't you?

Christa (Guest Designer)

Claire

Eiglas (me!

Jo

Rose

Suzi

Tigerlover (Jnr Team Member)

We have, as you know, said goodbye to some of our team already and some more will be gone next week but the good news is, we've been inundated with applications from some very talented and lovely crafters who wish to join our friendly team (...well, who wouldn't...? LOL!) so in a few hours, the die will have been cast....and so will the starring roles in our team!  I can't wait to see who comes through and what they make - it'll be like opening a window on a Spring morning... (...I know, I do go on...! LOL!)!

The DT call closes at 6:00am GMT 02/09/2010

For myself, after next week's challenge (09/09/10) I will be 'lurking' in the shadows (...ya don't escape Eiglas that easily...!) and will pop back now and then to guest and sponsor  - I mean they just can't cope without me y'know....! LOL! (...oh, not much...!).

We can't wait to see your projects! 

Hugs

The C.R.A.F.T Team!

x

Winner Week 65

We had a great response to our Milestone Birthday/Anything Goes challenge, thanks so much to everyone who entered.

Our sponsor this week is our very own Claire - Hope Jacare - who along with Eileen, Andrea and Julie is leaving C.R.A.F.T it's been lovely working with them and we'll miss them all and wish them the very best of luck in the future.

The prize this week is one of Claire's lovely rubber stamps:

and the winner, as picked by random.org is.......

Number 1 - Claire, who made this lovely card:

Congratulations Claire, your card is lovely, please email us with your details and your prize will soon be on its way to you!

Just 24 hours till our DT call closes.

Morning all,

Just a very quick reminder that our current DT call will close at 6am tomorrow morning (UK time). E-mail entries only. All we need is a little bit about yourself, why you would like to join us and a link to your blog or gallery. We aim to contact our new DT members by Friday or Saturday.

Love,

Jo and the CRAFT team.